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标题: [新闻] 著名马克思主义史学家霍布斯邦逝世
时间: Mon Oct 1 21:29:21 2012
Eminent Marxist historian Hobsbawm dies aged 95
(Reuters) - Renowned British left-wing historian Eric Hobsbawm,
whose writing influenced students and politicians across Europe,
died in a London hospital on Monday aged 95, the BBC reported.
He died in the early hours of the morning in London's Royal Free
Hospital, where he was being treated for pneumonia.
"He will be greatly missed, not only by his wife of 50 years,
Marlene, and his three children, seven grandchildren and great
grandchild, but also by his many thousands of readers and students
around the world," a family statement said.
Hobsbawm won critical acclaim with a four-volume history of Europe
in the 19th and 20th centuries, which was translated into 40
languages. His bestselling memoirs charted the pivotal moments in
modern European history through which he lived.
Hobsbawm was born into a Jewish family at Alexandria, Egypt in the
year of the Russian Revolution, 1917, and grew up in Vienna and
Berlin before moving to London as a teenager in 1933 as Adolf Hitler
was rising to power in Germany.
He joined the Communist party aged 14, and went on to be closely
associated with Britain's left-wing Labour party, over which he was
seen to have a strong influence in the 1980s and 1990s. He was once
described by former Labour leader Neil Kinnock as "my favourite
Marxist".
Hobsbawm maintained his commitment to Marxism even after the Soviet
invasion of Hungary in 1956.
Years later he said he had "never tried to diminish the appalling
things that happened in Russia", but had believed in the early days
of the communist project that a new world was being born.
(Reporting By Isla Binnie)
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